Alex K. Chen
stochastickea.bsky.social
Alex K. Chen
@stochastickea.bsky.social
quora.com/Alex-K-Chen
Reposted by Alex K. Chen
When I wrote Section 230 I did so knowing it would be critical for protecting free speech online. 30 years later and it’s one of the last things standing in the way of Republican censorship of the internet. Here’s to many more years of defending this vital safeguard of free speech.
February 8, 2026 at 6:28 PM
dopaminergic neurotoxicity from amphetamines shows up in the terminal end of SN=>BG axons, which is NOT the same region of neurotoxicity as parkinson's disease
February 7, 2026 at 2:38 PM
it would be nice to ask hardware hackathons if they have STM32s
February 7, 2026 at 2:16 PM
OKAY WHO IS GONNA BE AT #SLAS2026? Any interactive tutorials where we get our hands (or code) dirty?
February 7, 2026 at 4:42 AM
Marc Andreessen had the line of, “most people are willing to endure any amount of chronic pain to avoid acute pain”. It feels like a lot of the cases we’re talking about are just leaning into the acute pain, whatever it i
February 6, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Donald J. Trump deserves an award for teamkilling!
January 28, 2026 at 5:01 PM
I can't believe o3 was released in April 2025...
after that, nothing was *ever* the same again.

[chatgpt deep research was a good enough substitute til then, but o3 made deep research less used]

i cant believe i used chatgpt before 2025 - Jan2025 was when it finalyl took over every thoughtstream
January 15, 2026 at 5:24 AM
if u use multiple screens, it's nice to use one for codex, one for your main program, and one for chatgpt/claude to cross-check everything with
January 5, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I'm already feeling a vibe shift this year [maybe a msg from someone else primed this]. It may just be learning to take the smallest possible dose of modafinil again, but if it is, it has to stay.
January 2, 2026 at 5:04 PM
it's so funny how rapamycin.news/latest just has to be my safe space to post everything (tho I also had to do it while retreating from a reward loop whose "rewards" I had to set to 0 for a while)
January 2, 2026 at 4:52 PM
I forgot his name but I used Grok to finally dig up his name again: www.trishank.com

I def remember my interaction with him from NECSI2018 being one of the most interesting
Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy
Amateur computer scientist. RWRI alumnus & instructor. Physical culturist.
www.trishank.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Last year was not great. Much of it b/c I was still so tired. Despite all the LLMs
There are a few signs this year might be better (even w/o the "5 year cycle").

Hm after too much of a break I dosed modafinil again.
January 2, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Facebook photo albums were once so fun b/c you could tag all your friends in random pics for the lulz (and also list your friends as family members)
December 31, 2025 at 5:47 AM
If microplastics grow at 1.5x every 8 years, then microplastics levels were 66 percent of their levels now 8 years ago

2016 was such a happy year compared to 2025. I feel like fast AGI timelines are the only way to save us all from microplastics...
December 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM
December 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I am microdosing GLP1s way way less than ideal, but Christin Glorioso's substack is the #1 thing that finally convinces me [even if i don't eat less with microdoses]
December 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Be prepared to have AI change your mind more in 2026 than in any prior year

[AIs that win superpersuasion also advocate responsible use of psychoplastogens or TMS/tFUS]
December 23, 2025 at 5:46 AM
i cant believe my mindless way of doing things is to watch anton petrov youtube videos
December 23, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Well this year was the first year I figured the heat death of the universe might not be inevitable (DESI results, cosmology crisis]
Microplastics awareness went way up
But above all, it was the year ChatGPT became alive

2025 passed too quickly. But maybe AI will help figure out how to slow it down
December 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Is this year going to be the "last normal year"?

Part of me thought it was last year [i didn't believe AI-2027, but it still indicated a small update], but 2025 was still pretty normal.

[obvs 2020/2021 were not "normal years", but 2023-2024 seemed pretty normal]
December 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I really am dark matter aren't i
December 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Intensity/spirit in animals

chatgpt.com/share/69426b...
ChatGPT - Animal spirit vs intelligence
Shared via ChatGPT
chatgpt.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
It took a lot to get me to get sleep apnea surgery (including COVID, which made remote appointments possible from WA, and way easier in WA than MA), but this was one of the most consequential decisions I ever made in my life. Even if it didn't completely cure it.
December 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM